Example sentences of "his [noun] and for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Intended for the priesthood , Diderot lost his faith and for some years scraped a living as a tutor , hack journalist and translator . |
| 2 | Ali 's still up his tricks and for those who do remember the magic in the ring — it 's still there . |
| 3 | He said that flexible manufacturing systems like SCAMP meant jobs for his workers and for any company that installed the technology . |
| 4 | My hon. Friend the Member for Basildon gave clear evidence of the improvement in waiting lists for his constituents and for those of my hon. Friend the Member for Thurrock . |
| 5 | In McGilligan 's case , the fruits of his labour have come late in his career and for that reason are all the more welcome . |
| 6 | Poorly appreciated during his life and for many years after his death , this period of his work was reassessed by a touring exhibition sponsored by the Hayward Gallery in 1981 , but a substantial group of his later canvases has never been shown in the context of his whole development . |
| 7 | When you 'd done with that , went across to another chappie that came at nine o'clock , selling clothes , used to put his lines up on his stall , he had lines across his stall and for that you got tuppence or threepence , depending on his mood and by then it would be ten o'clock so you 'd go to one or two more and collect them jugs up and fetch them tea . |